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If you think that non-experts can't make a judgement about food safety that, while not being perfect, is still useful, then I don't think we will agree about mu
by _-___________-_ 6y ago
If you think that non-experts can't make a judgement about food safety that, while not being perfect, is still useful, then I don't think we will agree about much.
- schwartzworld 6y agoI think that certain kinds of risks are just risks regardless of your "judgement". If you want to drink raw milk, that's cool, but don't kid yourself that you can tell the safety by the cut of the farmer's jib.
- _-___________-_ 6y agoIt's just not black and white like that. You can tell a lot of useful things about the food safety of an establishment by looking at it. If the farmer's equipment is filthy, or she keeps chickens in the same room she processes the milk, I'm probably not gonna drink milk from there. If it's all spotless, and there are clearly systems and processes being followed, I feel reasonably safe (I've been drinking raw milk most of my life and never once became ill from doing so). These kinds of risks are similar to the risks of eating beef tartare or oysters (things that I also do fairly regularly, including sometimes in developing countries!), and humans have been reasonably successfully managing these risks for a long time, meanwhile some other humans seem to massively overstate the risks for some reason.